Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in:
- WTO law
- EU external trade relations law
- UK trade law
- International investment law
- Foreign relations law
Public outreach & key achievements
- Author of EU Deep Trade Agenda Law and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2016)
- Co-Investigator on 'Governance for "a place between": the multilevel dynamics of implementing the Protocol on Northern Ireland (2021-2023)
- Co-Investigator on 'Tensions at the Fringes of the European Union - Regaining the EU's purpose' (2016-2019)
Research students
| PhD area | The role and involvement of subnational entities in international trade |
| Name | Daniela Janikova |
| PhD area |
'One state, two systems': A legal framework for Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trade regime |
| Name | Dylan Wilkinson |
Alumni: Where are they now
| PhD area | The UK’s legal framework for market integration in services and devolved regulatory autonomy. A missed opportunity? |
| Name | Dr Gary Simpson |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2025 |
| Current Position | Senior Policy Adviser ,Department for Business and Trade |
| Quotation | 'Without Professor Melo Araujo, I would not have undertaken my PhD. As a student in his LLM modules on International Trade Law and UK Trade Law and Policy, his enthusiasm for teaching and visible passion for international economic law was unquestionably the single biggest factor which piqued my own curiosity in the topic, so much so that he has been my supervisor since this time. My heartfelt thanks go to him for his unconditional guidance, support, and direction throughout the last six years (including one master’s dissertation and one doctrinal thesis). I owe him a tremendous debt, without him I would currently be in a very different career.' |
| PhD area | Sanctions for copyright infringement in relation to the film industry in developing economies: Nigeria as a case study |
| Name | Dr Nkem Itanyi |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2022 |
| PhD area |
Big data, surveillance and the digital citizen |
| Name | Dr Jennifer Cobbe |
| Years of study | PhD awarded 2018 |
| Current Position |
Coordinator of Cambridge University's Trust & Technology Initiative |
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- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Law
- Centre for European and Transnational Legal Studies
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